Word: intendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...participated in drafting the bill," Taft pointed out. "What did you intend your lawyers to draw?" Tobin, who had actually directed the drawing of the bill, still tried to duck. Taft kept after him until, cornered, Tobin said: "We did not draft a bill that had to do with emergency disputes ... I am not an attorney and did not know what the answer would...
...hopes Fordham will have no part of plans (such as are called for by the President's Commission on Higher Education) for still more greatly increased college enrollments. His remarks ended with a typical Gannon snapper: "Instead of accepting more & more as the number of applicants increase, we intend to screen our students with more & more care . . . Unless we have this type of aristocracy . . . our Jeffersonian democracy will soon be a Russian rubble heap...
...intend to discuss many issues of great importance for the student body, both generally and particularly," Professor Harris said yesterday. After the speeches, the floor will be open to debate...
...Administration's strategy began to emerge. Southern Senators, who had wandered off the reservation, would be told that Harry Truman did not intend to be "vindictive." The Southerners could vote as they pleased, but any effort to thwart the majority's will by filibustering a bill to death (such as an anti-poll-tax measure) would be sternly punished by cutting off federal patronage...
...authority. His similes were not up to Andrei Vishinsky's high standards, but he did his best. Cried Malik: "The Dutch reply is a cynical request by an aggressor for two or three days more to kill off his victims completely . . . Do the U.S. and Britain intend, like Pontius Pilate, to wash their hands of the matter...